RE: Sa'Vasku

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 NGarbett@STSSystems.com wrote:

> How about this for a simple way to stop the 
> Sa'Vasku from sniping, simply limit their 
> Stingers to 36 inches. This would also 
> advantage the other races as they would be 
> more effective at shorter ranges against
> the Sa'Vasku. 

This would turn the S'V into pale imitations of humans, barely alien at
all... Besides, as Beth pointed out, you're removing every advantage the
S'V have.

I doubt the S'V sniping is actually unbalaced, personally. It's only the
very largest ships that have enough power to throw beams a serious
distance, and it's rarely more than one or two die. They've come out
about
even in all the games we've had them in locally.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Bell [mailto:bkb@beol.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:06 AM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: RE: Sa'Vasku
> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!
> As I said, I had not heard any feedback. Now we know that it does not
work.
> 
> At 10:27 2000-08-21 +1000, you wrote:
> >G'day guys,
> >
> > >I have not heard back any playtests, but I like the idea of making
the
> > >stingers equivilent to Beams based on power. Power to equivlent
Beam is
> > >2^(x-1) where x is the Beam Class number.
> >
> >The problem is that the SV aren't built with that many stingers on
board 
> >(compared with human designs of about the same mass), so when they
get to 
> >close range they lose over half the dice compared to any other beam
armed 
> >race. Add to that the fact that depending on amount of energy given
to the 
> >A pool and range etc etc its actually better to buy to 2 class 4 and
1 
> >class 3 rather than 4 class 3 at range y. So if the SV weren't
screaming 
> >at their lack of punch close in then everyone else is when the SV
have 
> >just spent half an hour determining exactly what the classes are the
SDN 
> >is going to fire to get maximum bite for its paltry punch. I'm not
trying 
> >to sound harsh, I initially like the sound of the idea too it just
doesn't 
> >work at the coal face unfortunately.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Beth
> >
> >
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